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WILLIAM Q. KENNEDY, 0F PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led January 8, 1909. ,Serial No. 471,239.

To all Iwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Q. KENNEDY, a citizen of the United States of America, and residing at Paterson, in the "county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehiclc-lYlieels, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the'art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to particularly for automobiles, thereof is to provide a wheel siliency of apneumatic tired wheel but em'- ploying instead a solid tire, of rubber or other suitable material, and thus preventing the troubles consequent upon the use of the said pneumatic tires; a further object being to provide a wheel in which the load and impact are taken by a plurality of springs simultaneously7 thus preventing the jar incidental to the movement of the load in the vehicle wheels, and the object having the rerotation of the wheel from one spring to another; a further object being to provide a permanently engaged connection between the wheel hub and the said springs; a still further object being to prevent a rotation of starting or stopping of a vehicle provided with my wheels; a still further object being to provide incasing means for the parts of my wheel which serves as a dust guard therefor, as well as a lubricant container, and which permits the movement of the hub and connected parts in the use of thesaid wheels; a still further object being to provide sup.-

plemental springs, of a reduced number,-

which are readily detached and replaced by others of different strength in adapting the vehicles to varying loads and conditions; and a still further object being to provide a wheel of this type which is-simple in construction, positive in operation, comparatively inexpensive, and which cannot readilyget out of order and require repair.

i y invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accom-- panying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts are designatedby `the same reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure l is a side elevation of a wheel constructed according to my invent-ion, partly in section with the covering plate removed; Fig; 2 is a section taken on the the plate b2, said springs d2 .of the load or -impact and,

this function and there is,

In the drawings forming a part of this l application, I have shown a vehicle wheel, comprising a felly a, solid tire a2 and hub b, said felly having a plurality of segmental springs a3 secured to the inner side thereof by means of bolts a4 or other suitable means, and said hub having a plate b2 either integrally or otherwise connected therewith and provided with a recess b3 adjacent each of the springs a3 and which enter thereinto and are engaged thereby, and at b4 I have shown a sprocket wheel connected with the hub and by means of which the wheel may be actuated.

Secured to the sides of the felly are plates c and c', the former of which carries a box c2 provided with an oil hole c3, and the latter of which carries a collar c4 bearing against said plates being held by means of bolts c5 or suitable equivalents.

The plate b2 is provided with a plurality of recesses d, within each of which is placed a spring d2 secured to a bolt d3 held in the plates c and, inthe use ofthese springs, I provide oil passages d* through also taking some when the conditions require lit, I may remove the said springs and replace them by -others of` greater or less wheel and springs z3 to the said conditions without changing the latter. It will thus be seen that I `.provide aplurality of springs which simultaneously take the load, only one T I or two lof them at the top not assisting in therefore no transferring-of the entire load from one spring to another, andrattle,

in the rotation of the wheel,. nor

strength, thus adapting the with the consequent jar can the hub rotate through an arc of a circle before the felly or tiremoves instarting' a vehicle providedwith the wheels, thus overcoming two of thev fatal defects-in spring spoke wheels as at present-constructed. Y While I have shown a certain configura'- t-ion of the s rings asand the recesses therefor, it will evidentthat'changes therein 'may be made tov nieetvarying conditions and many other changesin and modifications of the form of construction. shown and descr-ibed,may be made, within the scope of the yfollowing claims,-w1th out departing from` the spirit of my invention, vor sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A vehicle Wheel, comprising a telly, a plurality of segmental springs thereon, the ends of which are directed inwardly, a hub, and a plate connected With said hub and having peripheral recesses forming shoulders bearing upon the ends of corresponding springs, and means for preventing lateral movement of said elly with relation to said hub.

2. In a vehicle Wheel, a felly, a plurality of segmental springs thereon and the ends of which are directed inwardly, a hub, and a plate secured thereto and being provided with peripheral recesses forming shoulders bearing upon the ends of corresponding),` springs,

said recesses having the same eontour as said spring ends at the points of cont-act therewith and means for preventing lateral movement of said felly with relation to said hub.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 5th day of January 1909.

'WILLIAM Q.. KENNEDY.

Titnesses GEORGE F. BENTLEY, J. C. LARSEN. 

